of August, 1840. He came West and located in Iowa, first entering railway service in July, 1862, as a lineman in the engineering corps then surveying the line of the Burlington & Missouri River railroad in Iowa. Six months later, or early in 1863, Mr. Potter enlisted in the Seventh Regiment of Iowa cavalry. He enlisted with the expectation of entering service in the war of the rebellion, but about that time the Indians in Nebraska, then the western frontier, were becoming troublesome and as the construction of the Union Pacific Railway was being hampered by them, the regiment to which Mr. Potter belonged was ordered to Ft. Kearney and from that post the troops were detailed to guard the road constructors and chase the marauding Indians. When his regiment was mustered in 1866 Mr. Potter had risen to a captaincy. He then entered the service of the road he had helped survey, as station agent at Albia, Iowa. In 1868 he was made special claim and fuel agent of the road with headquarters at Burlington, and remained in that capacity until the Burlington and Missouri River in Iowa was absorbed by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, when he became a general agent of that corporation with headquarters at Creston, Iowa. In August, 1873, he was again promoted to the assistant superintendency of the Iowa division and in February, 1875, was further elevated to the position of superintendent. In December, 1879 he was made assistant general manager with headquarters at Chicago, one year later becoming the general manager of that great corporation. In 1884 he also became first vice-president and thus remained at the practical head of the company's affairs until May 15, 1887, when he accepted a splended offer from the Union Pacific Railway, becoming its first vice-president and general manager at a salary said to be the largest ever paid a working railroad official. Since that date he has been a resident of Omaha, closely devoting himself to the tangled affairs of the great railroad of which he took charge, and a splendid showing he is making, the earnings being largely increased and the operating expenses greatly curtailed. Mr. Potter is a thorough railroad man. He began at the lower rounds and now, while yet in his prime (forty-seven years old), he has risen by merit and practical knowledge to be recognized as foremost as a railroad manager. He is a genial, outspoken man, easily approachable, but of a firm demeanor and a man who is at once respected for his convictions and self-reliance. He has the fullest respect of his associates,

treating the men whom he directs with marked consideration, and is so good a judge of men that he makes no mistakes about those he gathers around him. Mr. Potter is a democrat in politics and a man of influence in the party councils. He is married and happy in his domestic relations with a charming wife and interesting family.)

     [One of the best known railroad men in this country is Thomas Lord Kimball, of the Union Pacific. He was born in Buxton, York county, Maine, October 1, 1831, and lived with his parents on a farm till he was seventeen years of age. He then entered upon a course of academic study, and taught school during his vacations till his twenty-first year, when he engaged in commercial and express business, in which he continued for four years. In 1856 Mr. Kimball visited most of the western States, and a year later removed with his family to the Western Reserve, in Ohio, and resided there until early in 1859, when he located in Cincinnati. During the following year he turned to account his earlier experience as an amateur newspaper writer and reporter, and published a series of articles on the West and in the interests of the Pennsylvania railroad company. He was employed in the service of that company for three years as its southwestern passenger agent, five years as assistant general passenger agent, and three years as general Western passenger agent. In March, 1871, Thomas A. Scott was elected president of the Union Pacific Railway Company and Mr. Kimball, who had been intimately associated with him in the service of the Pennsylvania company for twelve consecutive years, was appointed by Mr. Scott to the the position of general passenger and ticket agent of Union Pacific. It was in that year, 1871, that Mr. Kimball came to Omaha and has ever since resided here. During this long period -- nearly seventeen years -- Mr. Kimball has remained with the Union Pacific throughout all changes of administration. For ten years he filled the office to which he was first appointed, general passenger and ticket agent. He was then promoted to be assistant general manager, which office he filled for four years The next three years he was the general traffic manager of the Union Pacific system, which had grown to vast proportions and which required a man of great executive ability, such as Mr. Kimball is acknowledged to be, at its head. On September 1, 1887, he was appointed assistant to the first vice-president, which position he now

     [J. S. Tebbets the general passenger and ticket agent of the Union Pacific railway, is the son of a Unitarian clergyman, and was born in Medford, Mass., on the 4th day of July, 1858. He was educated in the Latin school, Boston, and in Harvard University, graduating from that institution in the summer of 1880. He first entered railroad service as a truckman in the local freight depot of the Boston and Albany railroad at Boston on the 22d of November, 1880. There he worked for a number of months, being finally put in charge of the export business of the road which came from the West. He entered the general offices of the same road in a minor capacity on the 1st of September, 1881. Two years later he was made chief clerk of the general freight department of the road. In April, 1884, he went to East Albany, New York, to organize and take charge of the joint transfer freight house of the Boston and Albatty and New York Central roads. On the 1st of October, 1884 he came West and entered the general freight office of the Union Pacific railway in this city, and from that, dates a remarkably successful career in the railway world, promotion following promotion until now he is at the head of the passenger department of the great railroad whose service he entered three years ago as a clerk March 1, 1885, he was appointed division freight agent of the road, with headquarters at Salt Lake City. January 1, 1886, he was appointed assistant general freight agent, with headquarters at Kansas City. On the 1st of September, 1887, the Potter management called him to the head of the general passenger department, the onerous duties of which position he is still discharging with efficiency. Mr. Tebbets is a striking example of what a young man with brains and energy can accomplish. No man of his years ranks higher in the railroad world, and few, if any, have achieved such extraordinary distinction in so limited a time.]

     [E. L. Lomax, the assistant general passenger and ticket agent of the Union Pacific railway, was born in Fredricksburg, Virginia, on the 25th of February, 1852. He was educated at Columbia University, in that state, taking a full course in civil and mining engineering. When seventeen years of age he entered the United States engineer corps under General J. H. Wilson, then in command of the department of the Northwest, with headquarters at Keokuk, Iowa. In 1870 he entered railway service as local ticket clerk at Burlington, Iowa, of the Burlington & Missouri railroad, under A. E. Touzalin, then the general passenger and ticket agent of the road. In 1872 he entered the general offices of the Central Iowa railroad at Marshalltown, and two years later went to the St. Louis and Southeastern railroad as assistant to the general freight and passenger agent, with headquarters at St. Louis. He was soon promoted to the position of assistant general passenger agent, a position he held until 1879 when he accepted a like position with a larger corporation, the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southwestern railroad. In 1881 he was appointed general passenger and ticket agent of the Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis road with headquarters at Toledo, Ohio. Shortly afterward he went to the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road as chief clerk of the local service, under Percival Lowell, at Chicago. Later he became the chief clerk of the foreign service, and in 1884 was made assistant general passenger agent, which position he resigned in September, 1887, to accept the position of assistant general passenger and ticket agent of the Union Pacific railway under J. S. Tebbets and the Potter management of that road. Mr. Lomax has had an extensive railroad experience, serving in almost every capacity in both the freight and passenger departments. He is an efficient and capable man and a popular gentleman as well, who will be heard of in yet higher circles of the railroad world.]

     [Edward Dickinson, the general superintendent of the Union Pacific Railway, was born October 8, 1850, at Cumberland, Maryland. At the age of thirteen be entered the railway service as a messenger boy in the freight office of the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad, continuing in that capacity two years, meanwhile studying telegraphy. In 1865 he entered the employ of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad as a telegraph operator and clerk, three years later becoming the assistant train dispatcher of the road. In I870 he became train baggagemaster and express messenger, but after service of a year or so at that, came west and entered the service of the Union Pacific Railway as train dispatcher. For seven years he discharged the duties of that important position to the eminent satisfaction of his employers, so well in fact that in 1878 he was awarded deserved promotion and made a division superintendent. In 1883 he became general superintendent of the Wyoming Division, continuing in that capacity until the accession of Mr. Potter to the general management of the road, when Mr. Dickinson was made the general superintendent of all the lines, an important trust for a man not yet out of the thirties, but one whose duties he discharges to the entire satisfaction of the corporation. Mr. Dickinson is of a genial, sunny temperament, but a hard worker. When there are duties to be performed he devotes himself closely to them and his keen knowledge of the details of his business enables him to accomplish his ends speedily and satisfactorily. It would be commendation enough to say that he has been so highly honored by the Potter management of the road, but the excellent results achieved since he has been general superintendent show that the commendation is not beyond his merit. Outside of his official station Mr. Dickinson is highly esteemed and popular, and has a wide circle of friends. He is a citizen of 0maha and an enthusiastic believer in his chosen city.]

     [No man in the railway service has won distinction more absolutely by actual merit of ability than John A. Munroe, the general freight agent of the Union Pacific Railway. He was born in Bradford, Mass., Aug. 18, 1853, and while a mere boy developed an aptitude

and fondness for railroading that called forth much comment. His fatber was an influential minister of Bradford, and in circumstances which placed a college education within the reach of young Munroe. He studied with flattering success at Andover College, and afterwards entered Dartmouth College, where it was intended he should prepare for Harvard. The death of his father demanded a change of plans, so that he never entered Harvard, but shortly after the sad event, came west to Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he entered the employ of the Green Bay and Minnesota Railway as clerk successively of the passenger and freight departments. His ability was not long in being recognized, and he was promoted to be general freight agent of the road, which position he resigned to accept that of general agent of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha, with headquarters at Omaha. Before he had held this office a year he was called to fill the position of assistant traffic manager of the same road at Minneapolis and resigned this position to return to Omaha as assistant general freight agent of the Union Pacific December 20, 1882. He was tendered the position of first assistant general freight agent with headquarters at Kansas City October 4, 1884, and in January, 1886, was called back to Omaha to accept the office of general freight agent of the Union Pacific, which he still holds. Mr. Munroe is little over thirty-four years of age, yet he is recognized as one of the ablest railroad men in the country, and has won his eminence by neither influence nor accident, but by efficient application to a business for which nature had admirably adapted him. His present position is one which has always taxed the greatest resources that any previous incumbent could command, and is admittedly one of the most onerous offices in the service, especially as applied to the Union Pacific, whose tremendous system unavoidably involves questions connected with the subject of freights which require the greatest possible discretion in their